Facial Expressivity in Failure to Thrive and Normal Infants: Implications for Their Capacity to Engage in the World.

Abramson, Lauren

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Publication Date: 1991

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Facial Expressivity in Failure to Thrive and Normal Infants: Implications for Their Capacity to Engage in the World.

Abramson, Lauren

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, v37 n1 p159-82 Jan 1991

Investigated emotional and facial expressivity in infants who failed to thrive and normal infants who were videotaped in social and cognitive contexts. Although differences in emotional expressivity were not found, infants who failed to thrive displayed more negative effects and used their lower faces less often to express emotion. (Author/BB)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response, Eye Contact, Facial Expressions, Failure to Thrive, Infant Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Play, Psychological Patterns, Researcher Subject Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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